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Seriously, the text for thread titles is styled to be ELEVEN PIXELS HIGH. Body text in posts gets a measly 12 pixels.

This is a gaming forum. According to the current Steam hardware survey, the most common screen resolution these days is 1920x1080. On a typical-sized monitor, that means the text on these forums looks like borderline-illegible fine print. If it weren't for the ability of browsers to enlarge the text, this site would be almost unusable.

So I guess my question for the GOG employees is-- do you all browse your own forum on surfboard-sized monitors, or on projectors?
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ZylonBane: Seriously, the text for thread titles is styled to be ELEVEN PIXELS HIGH. Body text in posts gets a measly 12 pixels.

This is a gaming forum. According to the current Steam hardware survey, the most common screen resolution these days is 1920x1080. On a typical-sized monitor, that means the text on these forums looks like borderline-illegible fine print. If it weren't for the ability of browsers to enlarge the text, this site would be almost unusable.

So I guess my question for the GOG employees is-- do you all browse your own forum on surfboard-sized monitors, or on projectors?
Why don't you just zoom the page to the size you find comfortable? That's what, I assume, most people do.
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ZylonBane: Seriously, the text for thread titles is styled to be ELEVEN PIXELS HIGH. Body text in posts gets a measly 12 pixels.

This is a gaming forum. According to the current Steam hardware survey, the most common screen resolution these days is 1920x1080. On a typical-sized monitor, that means the text on these forums looks like borderline-illegible fine print. If it weren't for the ability of browsers to enlarge the text, this site would be almost unusable.

So I guess my question for the GOG employees is-- do you all browse your own forum on surfboard-sized monitors, or on projectors?
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mrkgnao: Why don't you just zoom the page to the size you find comfortable? That's what, I assume, most people do.
Works here,but some sites it doesn't.
Out of curiosity, I grabbed a couple of printed items near my desk and held them up against the thread titles. I was careful to reset the zoom level on my browser beforehand.

The instructions on my health insurance bill are the same height as the titles.
The text in a Raymond Feist paperback is the same height as the titles.

I typically don't have difficulty reading the titles, though I do muddle the occasional word if I'm not looking carefully. (e.g., I kept reading quaketastic as quasielastic.)

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I should mention that though the text is the same size, the printed text is a much higher resolution.
Post edited October 05, 2015 by grimwerk
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ZylonBane: Seriously, the text for thread titles is styled to be ELEVEN PIXELS HIGH. Body text in posts gets a measly 12 pixels.

This is a gaming forum. According to the current Steam hardware survey, the most common screen resolution these days is 1920x1080. On a typical-sized monitor, that means the text on these forums looks like borderline-illegible fine print. If it weren't for the ability of browsers to enlarge the text, this site would be almost unusable.

So I guess my question for the GOG employees is-- do you all browse your own forum on surfboard-sized monitors, or on projectors?
Like mrkgnao was hinting at, would ctrl+scroll wheel help at all (zoom in)?

Maybe GOG has too many pretentious designers who like large swaths of white space and small text so that the design can breathe. :P
The res on my monitor is 1920 x 1200, and the text seems alright to me. Seems about the same size as other text in other programs. (ref attached)

Does GOG's forum text look smaller on your setup when compared to Notepad and similar?
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